WEBVTT THEN BURIED IT IN A WOODEN AREA BEHIND THEIR HOME.>> WLWT-TV WAS THERE WHEN 18-YEAR-OLD SKYLAR RICHARDSON WAS DRIVEN INSIDE THE WARREN COUNTY JAIL AFTER BEING ARRESTEDAND INDICTED ON FIVE COUNTS INCLUDING AGGRAVATED MURDER AND INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER.PROSECUTOR DAVID SAYS SKYLAR DELIVERED THE BABY FULL TERM INSIDE THE FAMILY'S CARLISLE HOME IN EARLY MAY.DAYS AFTER HER SENIOR PROM.>> MY PERSONAL OPINION BASED ON THE EVIDENCE, AS TO MOTIVE, IS THAT, IN HER MIND, THIS WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS GOING TO BE ACCEPTED.>> NEIGHBORS SAY SKYLAR AND HER MOTHER WERE OBSESSED WITH EXTERNAL APPEARANCES.AS A FATHER HIMSELF, HE SAYS THIS CASE IS HARD TO WORK BECAUSE SKYLAR HAD OTHER OPTIONS.>> YOU'VE BEEN PREGNANT FOR NINEMONTHS.YOU'VE GIVEN BIRTH TO THE CHILD.THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO AT THAT POINT, IF YOU DON'T WANT THE CHILD, IS TO DRIVE IT FIVE MINUTES AWAY TO A POLICE DEPARTMENT OR A FIRE STATION.>> NEIGHBORS ACROSS THE STREET SAY THE DETAILS IN THIS CASE AREDISTURBING TO HEAR.CASEY ISAACS SAYS SHE KNOWS SKYLAR AND WAS TWO YEARS AHEAD OF HER AT CARLISLE HIGH SCHOOL.>> I'M SICK TO MY STOMACH BECAUSE I'M CURRENTLY 13 WEEKS PREGNANT AND I COULDN'T PUT MYSELF IN HER SHOES, I COULDN'T DO SOMETHING HOW SHE DID.IT NOT A NORMAL THING TO DO.IT'S VERY, JUST SCARY INSIDE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WENTTHROUGH HER HEAD FOR HER TO DO SOMETHING SO TERRIFYING.>> IN ADDITION TO THE AGGRAVATEDMURDER AND INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES, SKYLAR RICHARDSON WAS ALSO INDICTED ON CHILD ENDANGERING, TAMPERING

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"The general allegations against her are that sometime during the night of May 6 to May 7, 2017, that she did give birth to a newborn infant and that she caused the death of that infant. She subsequently burned the infant and buried the infant in the backyard of her own residence," Warren County prosecutor David Fornshell said.

Fornshell said the cause of the infant's death is unknown.

"To be frank with you, I'm not sure we ever will provide to you the exact medical cause of death, and the reason for that is because the child was, after death, burned and subsequently buried, and there was significant decomposition to the body," Fornshell said.

Richardson just graduated from Carlisle High School, where she was a cheerleader and an honor student.

Fornshell said Richardson and her mother are both obsessed with external appearances, and he believes that was one motivating factor in the murder.

"I think a lot of this, from my perspective, from viewing the evidence, came down to a situation that if members of the community were to find out that the Richardson girl was pregnant and perhaps gave birth and even if after giving birth, gave that child up for adoption, that was something that was not going to be accepted in that household, at least by Skylar and her mother," Fornshell said.

Neighbors told WLWT the details of the case are disturbing.

"I went to high school with her and I didn't expect anything like this to even happen so it's very sad," Casey Isaacs said. Isaacs and her boyfriend, Sam Jeffries, live across the street from the Richardsons.

"I just feel sick to my stomach because I'm currently 13 weeks pregnant and I couldn't put myself in her shoes," Isaacs said. "I couldn't do something the way, like how she did. It's just not a normal thing to do. It's very just scary and sad. I don't know what went through her head to do something so terrifying."

"It really kind of opens your eyes to their perspective of it and you don't understand, or I don't understand how they just went all the way through with that," Jeffries said.

The investigation began July 14 after police received a call from a doctor in reference to a stillborn baby.

Investigators began searching the property on Eagle Ridge Drive that day and uncovered the skeletal remains of an infant. They later confirmed the baby had been born alive and was not stillborn, police said.

Detectives returned a few days later and were seen taking ground samples near the fire pit.

The following week, investigators were back at the home again, serving a third search warrant. Among the evidence recovered from the home was a piece of rug, but it’s not clear what significance that has to the investigation.

Richardson is the only person charged in the case. She is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning.